Barton L. Cobert

Barton Cobert, MD, FACP, FACG, FFPM is an expert on Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, and author of the textbook Manual of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, used in training courses on drug safety and pharamcovigialnce. He is also co-author of Practical Drug Safety from A-Z, and Pharmacovigilance from A-Z: Adverse Drug Event Surveillance. He has extensive experience in Drug Safety, Clinical Research, Regulatory Affairs, Risk Management, Compliance, Inspections/Audits, Data Management, and Informatics in drug safety and clinical trials. He is a frequent presenter at Drug Safety Meetings, DIA, PERI, Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Temple University, University of Montreal, has was one of the founding members of the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) starting in 1989. He has worked on several ICH Working Groups and co-chaired the PSUR update group. He has also had numerous safety articles published in refereed journals and is on the Editorial Board of Expert Opinion in Drug Safety.

He was previously Global Head of Drug Safety at Schering Plough (1992-2003), Global Head of Safety at Novartis Consumer (2006-2007), and has held senior positions at Forest Laboratories, Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceuticals (now Sanofi-Aventisa), Ives Laboratories (now Wyeth) and Medidata Solutions.

Dr Cobert is a graduate of the New York University School of Medicine where he also did his training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He also did a post-doctoral fellowship in hepatology at Hopital Beaujon/INSERM in Paris, France. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He is on staff at the NY University School of Medicine and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ. He is now President of the consulting group BLCMD Associates LLC.